The politics of spectatorship and the aesthetic writings of the French-Algerian philosopher Jaques Rancière (1940) are the main focal points in this thesis. The aesthetic writings of Rancière have received increased attention ...

Approaching Performance Art through Neuroscience with Example of "The Artist is Present" (2010) by Marina Abramovi&#263;. In this master thesis, I demonstrate and discuss how perspectives from cognitive neuroscience can ...

This thesis explores the art form of "transgenic art", a term
coined by artist Eduardo Kac at the turn of the millennium.
Transgenic art is a strand of bio art specifically seeking to cross
(often extremely different) ...

Over time, different comprehensions of art have been expressed in the academic dicipline of
art history. This text will focus on the contrast between object-oriented and concept-based
understandings of art. The first of ...

The purpose of the present work is to analyse and discuss why Pope Paschal I (817-824) decorated his new church of S. Prassede in Esquilino with motives from the church of S. Cosma e Damiano at Forum. This building was ...

This thesis takes three paintings by seventeenth-
century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-
1669) and analyses them in the light of the
interrelated themes of blindness, sight and touch.
The choice of theme ...

This thesis is an inquiry of the politics of aesthetics in between the sublime and the relational in Olafur Eliasson's installations.
The Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) is one of contemporary art's most ...